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“Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.”
Source : Song: These Days, Album: For Everyman, 1973
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“I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.”
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“John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.”
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“When people are lame, they love to blame.”
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“It seems to me that I have always wanted to say the same things in my books: that life is one, that mystery is all around us, that yesterday, today and tomorrow are all spread out in the pattern of eternity, together, and that although love may wear many faces in the incomprehensible panorama of time, in the heart that loves it is always the same.”
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“Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”
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“As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.”
Source : Andrew O'Hagan (2010). “The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America”, p.16, Faber & Faber
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“Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.”
Source : Jim Tully (1927). “Circus Parade”
